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Thursday, November 13, 2025 - Friday, November 14, 2025

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Event Description

The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University will host the 18th Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference on November 13 and 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. This event will bring together scholars working in areas related to the FTC’s antitrust, consumer protection, and public policy missions. This will be an in-person event with a live stream for those who want to view remotely.

The scientific committee for the conference is:

  • Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)
  • Matthew Grennan (Emory University)
  • Kevin Williams (Yale University)

Organizers: Samuel Kleiner (FTC) and Eric Spurlino (FTC)

Staff Contact: Stephanie Aaron

Sponsors

This conference is sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University.

Registration

To register, please fill out the registration form with your name, email, and affiliation. You will receive a confirmation email when your registration is complete. We will use your email address to contact you with information about the conference and will share your name and email address with the conference co-sponsors. The FTC Act and other laws we administer permit the collection of your pre-registration contact information and the comments you file to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. For additional information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see the Commission’s system for mailing lists. For more details, please see the FTC Privacy Policy.

Attending the Workshop

The conference is free and open to the public. Please arrive early with enough time to go through security. The security processing will include a metal detector and X-ray screening of all hand carried items. You must have a valid government issued photo ID (government badge, license, passport, etc.). The conference will follow the AEA’s code of professional conduct, and requires presenters to adhere to the Bureau of Economics' disclosure policies. These disclosures will be included in the presenters’ bios.

  • Agenda

    Thursday, November 13

    8:30 a.m.

    Registration

    (Continental breakfast provided*)
    9:00 a.m.

    Welcome

    Ted Rosenbaum (Federal Trade Commission)
    9:15 a.m.

    Paper Session

    Chaired by Matthew Grennan (Emory University)

    Information Distortion in Label Design in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market

    Anastasiia Evdokimova (Yale University)
    Discussant: Christopher Conlon (New York University)

    Welfare Effects of Buyer and Seller Power

    Michael Rubens (UCLA Economics)
    co-authored with Mert Demirer (MIT Sloan)
    Discussant: Allan Collard-Wexler (Duke University)

    Combining Complements: Theory and Evidence from Cancer Treatment Innovation

    Rebekah Dix (Yale University)
    co-authored with Todd Lensman (Harvard Business School)
    Discussant: Amanda Starc (Northwestern University
    10:55 a.m.

    Break
    11:25 a.m.

    Keynote Address, “TBD”

    Matthew Grennan (Emory University)
    11:55 a.m.

    Lunch (provided*)
    1:00 p.m.

    FTC Policy and Research Session

    Chaired by Samuel Kleiner and Eric Spurlino (FTC)

    Loyalty Discounts and their Effects on Competition: FTC v. Surescripts

    Matthew Chesnes (Federal Trade Commission)

    Misrepresentations About Educational Investments: FTC v. Career Step

    Michel Grosz (Federal Trade Commission)

    Distributional Consequences of Privacy Regulation

    Ben Casner (Federal Trade Commission)
    co-authored with Matthew Leisten (Federal Trade Commission)

    Quantifying Clear and Conspicuous Disclosure Using Cognitive Economic Curves

    Katherine Chang (Federal Trade Commission)
    co-authored with Stefan Bucher (University of Cambridge),
    Andrew Caplin (New York University), Ryan Oprea (University of California, Berkeley), and Eric Spurlino (Federal Trade Commission)

    Economies of Scope from Shared Inputs

    Devesh Raval (Federal Trade Commission)
    co-authored with Paul Koh (Yonsei University)
    2:40 p.m.

    Break
    3:00 p.m.

    Keynote Address, “TBD”

    Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)
    3:30 p.m.

    Break
    3:50 p.m.

    Paper Session

    Chaired by Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)

    Algorithmic Pricing in Multifamily Rentals: Efficiency Gains or Price Coordination?

    Sophie Calder-Wang (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
    co-authored with Gi Heung Kim (Boston College)
    Discussant: Jeanine Miklos-Thal (University of Rochester)

    Designing Consent: Choice Architecture and Consumer Welfare in Data Sharing

    Tesary Lin (Boston University)
    co-authored with Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School, NBER, and CEPR) and Andrey Fradkin (Boston University and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy)
    Discussant: Ginger Jin (University of Maryland)

    Information and the welfare benefits from differentiated products

    Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota, NBER, ZEW)
    co-authored with Imke Reimers (Cornell University and ZEW) and Christoph Riedl (Northeastern University)
    Discussant: Jean-Pierre Dube (The University of Chicago)
    5:30 p.m.

    Hors d’oeuvres Reception*
    6:30 p.m.

    First Day of Conference Concludes

    *Sponsored by the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University

    Friday, November 14

    8:45 a.m.

    Registration (Continental breakfast provided*)
    9:00 a.m.

    Welcome

    Steven Berry (Yale University)
    9:15 a.m.

    Paper Session

    Chaired by Kevin Williams (Yale University)

    Market Power and the Welfare Effects of Institutional Landlords

    Felipe Barbieri (University of Pennsylvania Economics)
    co-authored with Gregory Dobbels
    Discussant: Steven Berry (Yale University)

    Exclusive Contracts in the Video Streaming Market

    Yihao Yuan (University of California, Los Angeles)
    Discussant: Marc Rysman (Boston University)

    Long-term contracts and efficiency in the liquefied natural gas industry

    Nahim Bin Zahur (Department of Economics, Queen’s University)
    Discussant: Jihye Jeon (Boston University)
    10:55 a.m.

    Break
    11:25 a.m.

    Keynote Address, “TBD”

    Kevin Williams (Yale University)
    11:55 a.m.

    Conference Concludes

    *Sponsored by the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University

FTC Privacy Policy

Under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) or other laws, we may be required to disclose to outside organizations the information you provide when you pre-register for events that require registration. The Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments, whether filed in paper or electronic form, and as a matter of discretion, we make every effort to remove home contact information for individuals from the public comments before posting them on the FTC website.

The FTC Act and other laws we administer permit the collection of your pre-registration contact information and the comments you file to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. For additional information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see the Commission’s Privacy Act system for public records and comprehensive privacy policy.

This event will be open to the public and may be photographed, videotaped, webcast, or otherwise recorded.  By participating in this event, you are agreeing that your image — and anything you say or submit — may be posted indefinitely at ftc.gov or on one of the Commission's publicly available social media sites.

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